Properties of Modernity
Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire
Vanderbilt University Press · Print & ebook · March 27, 2006
Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period.
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- Who it’s for
- Michael Iarocci examines Spanish Romantic writers and Spain’s changing place in European history and identity.
- Genres
- Iberian Lit Crit
- Published
- Vanderbilt University Press, March 27, 2006
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Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period.
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He points out that it has long been an unspoken assumption tainting much of literary criticism that Spain did not have a strong Romantic movement even though Spain itself had come to be viewed by the "new" Europe as the location of all that was romantic. Through a close study of Cadalso, Saavedra, and Larra, Iarocci argues that Spanish writers were intensely concerned with the same issues taken up by more famous Romantics and that the ways in which they address these issues provides us with a richer notion, not only of Spain, but of all of Europe.
Spanish Romantic Writers
Michael Iarocci examines Spanish Romantic writers and Spain’s changing place in European history and identity.
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- Spain’s changing place in European identity
- Close studies of Cadalso, Saavedra, and Larra
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- Spain’s marginalization by England, France, and Germany
- Spanish writers’ engagement with issues taken up by better-known Romantics
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| Iberian Lit Crit | 89% |
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Publisher categories
- Spanish & Portuguese History
- Caribbean & Latin American Criticism
- Iberian Lit Crit
- Authors
- Michael Iarocci
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Published
- March 27, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Spanish & Portuguese History